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Ansarullah

Ansarullah

A Zaidi Shiite movement operating in Yemen. It seeks to establish a democratic government in Yemen.
Shiite

Shiite

represents the second largest denomination of Islam. Shiites believe Ali (peace be upon him) to be prophet"s successor in the Caliphate.
Resistance

Resistance

Axis of Resistances refers to countries and movements with common political goal, i.e., resisting against Zionist regime, America and other western powers. Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Palestine are considered as the Axis of Resistance.
Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

A regional political u n i o n consisting of Arab states of the Persian Gulf, except for Iraq.
Taliban

Taliban

Taliban is a Sunni fundamentalist movement in Afghanistan. It was founded by Mohammed Omar in 1994.
  Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism is an extremist pseudo-Sunni movement, which labels non-Wahhabi Muslims as apostates thus paving the way for their bloodshed.
Kurds

Kurds

Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region, which spans adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They are an Iranian people and speak the Kurdish languages, which form a subgroup of the Northwestern Iranian branch of Iranian languages.
NATO

NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
Islamic Awakening

Islamic Awakening

Refers to a revival of the Islam throughout the world, that began in 1979 by Iranian Revolution that established an Islamic republic.
Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda

A militant Sunni organization founded by Osama bin Laden at some point between 1988 and 1989
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America Asks U.N.Council to Boost Pressure on Russia over Ukraine
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America Asks U.N.Council to Boost Pressure on Russia over Ukraine

Thursday 13 November 2014
Crimean peninsula from Ukraine in March, a month after the overthrow of a Moscow-backed president in Kiev after protests. European Union foreign ministers are due to meet in Brussels on Monday but are unlikely to step up sanctions against Russia, EU diplomats said on Wednesday. NATO's top milita ...
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"Green Light" to War on Russia, Legislation in America's Congress: Say No to War with Russia under H. Res. 758 “Russian Aggression”
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"Green Light" to War on Russia, Legislation in America's Congress: Say No to War with Russia under H. Res. 758 “Russian Aggression”

Thursday 4 December 2014 ،
Crimea and Odessa came after the local population appealed to Russia to protect them from the violence. Russia then agreed to Crimea joining the Russian Federation, a reaffirmation of an historic relationship . The Western press begins its narrative on the Crimea situation with the annexation, but ...
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Oil Price: New Russia-America War

Oil Price: New Russia-America War

Sunday 7 December 2014 ،
Crimea for multiple reasons. Aside from strategic factors, petro-politics are also involved. Excluding Russian reserves, Poland and Ukraine have the first and third largest deposits of recoverable shale gas in Europe. East Ukraine has energy reserves that America has its eyes on. This is why Washing ...
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Russia Threatens to React to Further America's Sanctions
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Russia Threatens to React to Further America's Sanctions

Sunday 14 December 2014 ،
Crimea from Ukraine in March, prompting a bloody conflict between government forces and pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine. The conflict has displaced over a million people and has left 4,634 dead and 10,243 wounded since it began eight months ago, according to the United Nations’ most curre ...
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Russia Will Retaliate If America Imposes New Sanctions
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Russia Will Retaliate If America Imposes New Sanctions

Sunday 14 December 2014 ،
Crimea from Ukraine in March and its support for pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine . The West claims that Russia has armed the rebels - an accusation that Moscow rejects - and has, together with the European Union, imposed several rounds of economic sanctions on Russian individuals and large c ...
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Washington’s Frozen War against Russia
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Washington’s Frozen War against Russia

Tuesday 16 December 2014 ،
Crimea led to the referendum which peacefully returned the historically Russian peninsula to Russia. But America-led chorus condemned the orderly return of Crimea as “Russian military aggression”. This defensive move is trumpeted by NATO as proof of Putin’s intention to invade Russia’s European neig ...
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Morales: America  is Behind the Current Drop In Oil Prices
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Morales: America is Behind the Current Drop In Oil Prices

Saturday 20 December 2014 ،
Crimea and alleged involvement in the Ukrainian crisis have delivered a painful blow to Russia’s economy. A decline in confidence in the country’s economy prompted investors to sell off Russian assets, which in turn saw the ruble plunging over 40 percent against the dollar since the start of the ye ...
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NATO Turning Ukraine into 'Frontline of Confrontation'
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NATO Turning Ukraine into 'Frontline of Confrontation'

Thursday 25 December 2014 ،
Crimea from Ukraine in March .
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The Western Double Standards: The case of Saudi
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The Western Double Standards: The case of Saudi

Monday 26 January 2015 ،
Crimea. They can sanction the Iranians for developing righteous nuclear energy. And, they can acquiesce to the utter destitution of 1.76 million Gazans. But you will hear no talk of sanctions due to Saudi dictatorship or its sponsorship of terrorism. At present the Saudis and Zionists are acting in ...

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Another epic from the Iranian people on the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution

Another epic from the Iranian people on the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution